Welcome to the Daily Digest, where MPR hits the road on the marriage amendment, Minnesotans are split on the amendment, and women are at the center of the race for president.

The Marriage Amendment

MPR and KARE11 teamed up to cover the marriage amendment.

The first installment of our work was broadcast last night. Here’s a look at how the amendment is playing in Red Wing.

Rep. Tim Kelly, who represents Red Wing, broke from his party to oppose the amendment.

Sasha Aslanian went to Granite Falls to find out how voters there feel about the amendment, too. There, former state Rep. Lyle Koenen broke with fellow Democratics to put the amendment on the ballot.

And MPR talked to students at Concordia College about how the marriage amendment is dividing the campus.

Watch and listen for more stories on KARE11 and on MPR the rest of this week.

A new KSTP/Survey USA poll shows the marriage amendment in a dead heat. Forty-seven percent support it and 46 percent oppose it. With a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points, that’s a statistical dead heat.

Seven percent are undecided.

Last month, KSTP found 50 percent of Minnesotans supported the amendment and 43 percent did not.

About the blogger

Catharine Richert covers politics for MPR News, and writes PoliGraph, a fact-checking feature that gets behind the spin in Minnesota politics. She has also contributed to MPR’s coverage of the federal health care overhaul. Catharine joined the MPR newsroom in 2011 after finishing a master’s degree at the U of M’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Previously, Catharine worked for PolitiFact.com and Congressional Quarterly. She lives in St. Paul with her husband and son.